Obama 1995 Video: Rev. Wright Represents The Best of What The Black Church Has to Offer

Newsbusters ^ | October 31, 2008 | Kerry Picket

[St. Louis Conservative]

In 1995, Barack Obama gave a TV interview to discuss the memoir he wrote, "Dreams From My Father." Obama spoke very highly of his then pastor Rev.Jeremiah Wright(my empahasis added:) OBAMA: In times of economic scarcity, ahm, generally, ahh, the politicians in this country, right now, ahh, want to look for scapegoats, want to organize around race, as opposed to around principle, and around values, ahh, and I think that's a mistake, and I think that can be countered, but it's gonna require the kinds of grassroots mobilization, ahh, and, and the kinds of work at a local level that I think, ahh, I talk about a lot in, in those chapters on Chicago.

INTERVIEWER: Wonderful man there, Reverend Wright?

OBAMA: Right! [ED: WRIGHT ?!?] And...

INTERVIEWER: Yeah...

OBAMA: ...ahh, who is, who is, ahh, my pastor, and, ahh, he is a wonderful man, and I think it, ahh, that's an example of, ahh, he's a pastor of a, of a large congregation in Chicago, and one of the interesting things that I discovered in my journey to discover...

INTERVIEWER: Mmm-hmm...

OBAMA: ...what my identity is, and who my father is, is also discovering sort of, ahh, my own faith, which, which is not, ahh, necessarily a traditional faith - I don't come out of an institutionalized religious setting, but, ahh, ahh, what becomes important to me is I work with, ahh, churches in...

INTERVIEWER: Mmm-hmm...

[ChicagahAl]

“Rev. Wright Represents The Best of What The Black Church Has to Offer”

Actually that's true, if you only count the Black Churches that subscribe to Black Liberation Theology.

Unfortunately, they may be the majority of Black Churches.

Wright's Stuff is repugnant. But it is the norm. Back when Jeremiah was news, Greta and Shaun and others, interviewed Black preachers and asked, “have you ever preached things like this in your church?” Everyone of them answered, “Yes, of course”.

Unfortunately, none of the interviewers pressed them for more information on that subject.

[seekthetruth]

Bump!

[Two Kids' Dad]

Obama’s unbelievable claim that he’s never heard Reverend
Wright say any of those hateful things during the 20 years he attended the church is utterly bogus. I have semi-conclusive proof that he’s lying.
Simply check the crowd reaction of every person who was in the audience during the videotaped sermons of hate. Do you see even one person showing any shock? Is even one parishoner standing aghast at the hate coming from the pulpit? The answer is obviously no.
Every person listening to his hate is comfortable with it and supports it. That shows, beyond any doubt, that they’ve heard similar hateful comments previously and
Obama must have heard them, too.